[Testing - Trixie] apt dist-upgrade wants to remove half of my system

[PsychoHermit]

Be careful, I don't know what's going on but apt dist-upgrade wants to remove Gnome and Nautilus and a bunch of other stuff. I will wait and see if it gets corrected before doing any upgrading.

Just saying be careful out there!

--glenn

[mrjcd]

yea was a bit trying earlier today for me doing apt full-upgrade with Trixie
NOT sure why ol Gnome was removed but I went ahead and done it anyways.
Came back with black screen but asking for login. Logged in as root.
Had to do an dpkg --configue -a
and an apt --fix-broken install
network was good so an apt install gnome
all back to ok

[@ttila]

Same for my Trixie, it is due of the unmeet dependencies of all "t64" newer libraries, in my case. While all packages will be update it is safe use "upgrade" instead of "dist-upgrade".

[FreewheelinFrank]

There seems to be a package update car crash in Testing at the moment. I would take @ttilla's excellent advice and hold off on removing anything for a few days until the dependency issues are resolved. Thanks mrjcd for the advice on what to do if wanted packages are removed.

It is “urgent to wait”, as fabien put it:

Things are constantly moving in testing. It is often “urgent to wait”, sometimes a few days, for the matter to be resolved.

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[PsychoHermit]

It looks like the issue is resolved, apt dist-upgrade looks sane again.

--glenn

[lauwon]

Or Not it wiped my Cinnamon this morning (well I reinstalled it after)

[AsVHEn]

So it's general, thank you. It's just a question of patience then.

[lauwon]

Quick update on Cinnamon disappearing the cinnamon-l10n package is 6.0.2-2 and the remainder is 5.8.4-4 so when upgrade it must wipe out the rest.

[ofdx]

Blindly ran apt full-upgrade and had an exciting morning.

I recovered my setup by installing the gnome package again, but now gdm doesn't display anything at all until I change to a different virtual terminal and back. I found some forum posts complaining about this with nvidia hardware (which I am using) years ago, but nothing recent. Anybody else?

[mrjcd]

I use NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 on this desk OptiPlex 7010 01.
Did use NVIDIA software year or so back but got rid of it all.
nouveau NV138 suits me fine now days.

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mrjcd@daDeb:~$ inxi -Fxz
System:
  Kernel: 6.6.15-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.0
  Desktop: GNOME v: 44.9 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux trixie/sid
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Dell product: OptiPlex 7010 v: 01
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 0GXM1W v: A02 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell
    v: A29 date: 06/28/2018
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i5-3570 bits: 64 type: MCP
    arch: Ivy Bridge rev: 9 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 6 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1634 high: 1672 min/max: 1600/3800 cores: 1: 1600
    2: 1600 3: 1665 4: 1672 bogomips: 27138
  Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GP108 [GeForce GT 1030] vendor: ZOTAC driver: nouveau
    v: kernel arch: Pascal bus-ID: 01:00.0 temp: 42.0 C
  Display: wayland server: X.Org v: 23.2.4 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6
    compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
    dri: nouveau gpu: nouveau resolution: 1: 1600x900~60Hz 2: 1600x900~60Hz
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nouveau,swrast platforms:
    active: gbm,wayland,x11,surfaceless,device inactive: N/A
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 4.3 vendor: mesa v: 23.3.5-1 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: NV138
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Dell
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP108 High Definition Audio vendor: ZOTAC
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1
  API: ALSA v: k6.6.15-amd64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.3 status: active
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network vendor: Dell driver: e1000e
    v: kernel port: f040 bus-ID: 00:19.0
  IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 596.17 GiB used: 429.75 GiB (72.1%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD6400AAKS-41H2B0
    size: 596.17 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 574.75 GiB used: 429.75 GiB (74.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 11.17 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    dev: /dev/sda5
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 42.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.58 GiB used: 1.99 GiB (12.8%)
  Processes: 279 Uptime: 2d 18h 50m Init: systemd target: graphical (5)
  Packages: 2736 Compilers: gcc: 13.2.0 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.21 inxi: 3.3.34
mrjcd@daDeb:~$ date
Wed May  1 07:47:08 AM CDT 2024
mrjcd@daDeb:~$ 

AND I did try full-upgrade again couple days ago -- it wanted to remove evolution + much much more...didn't have time for all that so I be just waiting....as others have said WAIT is really the BEST option

[PsychoHermit]

I wish they would get the train wreck that dist-upgrade is right now fixed. It wants to remove gnome,and evolution just to name a few. I guess I could go ahead to do dist-upgrade and reinstall what it removes, but that sounds like a pain in the butt.

--glenn

[PsychoHermit]

Went ahead and did the dist-upgrade, all I had to install was gnome and evolution, so that wasn't so bad.

--glenn